A Michigan man has been arrested after using social media to threaten to kill Jewish members of the state's government, according to an FBI affidavit. Michigan's attorney general, Dana Nessel, said on Twitter Thursday that she was told that she was one of the targets of the "heavily armed" suspect.

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In an affidavit, FBI special agent Sean Nicol said that Carpenter made threats on Twitter on Feb. 17, saying that he would "carry out the punishment of death to anyone that is jewish in the Michigan govt if they don't leave, or confess, and now that kind of problem." Carpenter also posted that a "New Israel" had been formed in a nine-mile radius of his home address in Lenawee County, Michigan, the affidavit says.

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His Twitter account is still not banned: https://twitter.com/tempered_reason